Security video from a coastal Georgia jail shows a detainee being pushed against a wall by guards and repeatedly punched in the head and neck after five deputies enter the man’s cell.
An attorney for the detainee, 41-year-old Jarrett Hobbs, released the video Monday. Civil rights attorney Harry Daniels said authorities should pursue criminal charges against the sheriff’s deputies in Camden County in Southeast Georgia who swarmed Hobbs, who is Black, after he was booked for traffic violations and drug possession charges Sept. 3.
“It’s undeniable that Mr. Hobbs was approached by jailers and he was assaulted, punched multiple times in the back of his head, kneed in his head and dragged out of his cell,” Daniels said. “This is a brutal beating, a brutal attack.”
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